LibriVox recording of The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report, Volume 1 by Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Read in English by volunteer readers. In 1981, Columbia became the first spacecraft of its type to fly in Earth orbit and successfully completed 27 missions over more than two decades. During the STS-107 mission, Columbia and its crew traveled more than six million miles in 16 days. The Orbiterʼs destruction, just 16 minutes before scheduled touchdown, shows that...
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LibriVox recording of The Man from Glengarry, by Ralph Connor. Read by Bruce Pirie. With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. The Man from Glengarry was his most popular and accomplished work. Immediately after its publication in 1901, the novel spent several months in the top ranks of the New York Times "Books in Demand" list. We follow the story of Ranald Macdonald, who is...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, Canada, Ontario, British Columbia, Glengarry, adventure, romance, religion
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LibriVox recording of Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Agnes C. Laut. Read in English by Claire M; Ramon Escamilla; Mike Pelton; & Tammy Porter. Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first discovery was made in 1859, but the rush didn't get underway in earnest until 1861. This short work documents the story of this...
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LibriVox recording of The Land of the Frozen Suns, by Bertrand W. Sinclair. Read by Roger Melin. Bertrand W. Sinclair was known for his novels which centered in and around the rugged and frozen terrain of Montana and later, British Columbia. The Land of Frozen Suns is primarily an action and adventure novel which takes place near the northern most reaches of British Columbia at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains not far from the border of the Yukon Territory. Bob Sumner, after having been...
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LibriVox recording of Who Burnt Columbia? by Augustine T. Smythe. Read in English by David Wales This Librivox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessmen of the former Confederacy. This reading focuses on the sworn statements of General William Tecumseh Sherman who commanded the Carolinas campaign and General Oliver O. Howard who was one of Sherman’s subordinate commanders. The subject is the...
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LibriVox recording of Travels in Alaska, by John Muir. In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last...
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